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Letters Patent No. 108,135. dated October 11, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN CANE-STRIPPERS.

The Sehedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same I, CONSTANTINE ALEXANDER HEGE, of Friedberg, in the county of Forsyth and State of North Carolina, have invented a Machine to Clean Sugar-Cane, of which the following is a' specification.

Nature and Objects of the Invention.

General Description.

A is the frame, to which the cleaner is securely fastened.

B, the stationary semicircular cutter.

C, the movable semioircular cutter, which moves on its support, D, so that it can readily enlarge or diminish the space between the cutters, so as to ac commodate itself to tle size of the sugar-cane while being passed through it.

E is the lever by which cutter is opened or closed.

The cutter is closed hy means of the weight H, which is attached to a cord fastened to the lever E at G.

In similar manner the cutters are opened by-means of a treadle, communicating with level' E hy a cord, K, fastened at F.

The sugar-cane is started in the machine hy putting the foot on treadle I, which opens the cutters; then take hold of the seed-end of cane, and place the stem between the cutters, and remove the foot ofi" the tl'eadle I; then, by drawingr the stalk briskly through toward you, all the fodder, mildew, &c., will be removed.

Claim.

I claim as my invention- The combination of the two semieircnlar cutters B and O, so arranged as to accommodate themselves to the size of the cane as it is being passed through as acted upon hy lever E, which communicates with spring or weight H and treadle I.

C. A. HEGE.

Witnesses:

E. M. WEESNER, JOHN J. SHORE. 

